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Page 15 - The young gentleman belonging to the Custom House, who, in the fear of rain, borrowed the umbrella at Will's coffee-house, in Cornhill, of the mistress, is hereby advertised that to be dry from head to foot on the like occasion, he shall be welcome to the maid's pattens.
Page 67 - They are used especially by horsemen, who carry them in their hands when they ride, fastening the end of the handle upon one of their thighs, and they impart so long a shadow unto them that it keepeth the heat of the sun from the upper parts of their bodies.
Page 66 - Italian tongue umbrellas, that is, things that minister shadow unto them for shelter against the scorching heat of the sun. These are made of leather something answerable to the...
Page 58 - ... seen open in the sculptures. It was edged with tassels, and was usually ornamented at the top by a flower or some other ornament. On the later bas-reliefs, a long piece of embroidered linen or silk, falling from one side like a curtain, appears to screen the king completely from the sun. The parasol was reserved exclusively for the monarch, and is never represented as borne over any other person.
Page 14 - Let thy worst wig, long us'd to storms, be worn ; This knows the powder'd footman, and with care Beneath his flapping hat secures his hair. Be thou for every season justly drest, Nor brave the piercing frost with open breast ; And, when the bursting clouds a deluge pour, Let thy surtout defend the drenching shower.
Page 15 - Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise ; Or, underneath th' umbrella's oily shed, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Let Persian dames th...
Page 25 - Consequently, in the East, where the umbrella has been from the earliest ages in familiar use, it appears to have been occasionally employed by vaulters to enable them to jump safely from great heights. Father Loubere, in his curious account of Siam, relates, that a person famous in that country for his dexterity, used to divert the king and court by the extraordinary leaps he took, having two umbrellas, with long slender handles, fastened to his girdle.
Page 15 - Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. The templar spruce, while every spout's abroach, Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
Page 56 - ... satisfactorily proved by the following passage from the dramatic poem of S'akuntdla, the date of which is supposed to be the 6th century of the Christian era: — ("The cares of supporting the nation harass the sovereign, while he is cheered with a view of the people's welfare, as a huge Umbrella, of which a man bears the staff in his own hand, fatigues while it shades him. The sovereign, like a branching tree, bears on his head the scorching sunbeams, while the broad shade allays the fever of...
Page 62 - Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Let Persian dames th' umbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray ; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state...